Letters to Barron’s

Letters on electric cars, Medicare, the Trump administration, and Bitcoins.

Nov. 17, 2017 7:09 p.m. ET

Nov. 17, 2017 7:09 p.m. ET

Fool’s Errand?

To the Editor: Buried deep in “Will Traditional Auto Makers Steal the Future From Tesla?” (Cover Story, Nov. 11) is a crucial sentence: “The company [Toyota] has focused on hybrid cars such as Prius rather than pure electric vehicles.” To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln on lawyers with fools for clients, only a fool would buy an electric car that can’t charge its own battery. It’s a fool’s errand to depend on governments to subsidize seven million supercharging stations and doubled electric-generation capacity, as the article reports Morgan Stanley estimates. George F. Steeg Potomac Falls, Va.